Restoring the classics…
Archive for year 2008
Dig Dug Resurrected
Dec 15th
I received yet another Dig Dug board in the mail on Friday. I plugged the board into the cabinet and Dig Dug has been resurrected. The game plays flawlessly and with all of the new components it will hopefully continue to play flawlessly for some time to come!
Hyper Sports Added To Collection
Dec 11th
Well, after my recent woes with Dig Dug, it’s about time for some good news. I recently added a Hyper Sports board to my collection. For those of you not familiar with the game, it is essentially the sequel to Track & Field. The board is playable in the Track & Field cabinet, uses the same button layout and features the following events: swimming, skeet shooting, vaulting horse, archery, triple jump, weight lifting and the pole vault. Here are the scans of the original market flyer for the game: More >
In The Words Of Q*Bert, “@!#?@!”
Dec 10th
I’ve spent a significant amount of time with Dig Dug over the last few days trying to get it working again. Monday night, at the suggestion of a fellow collector, I spent about an hour swapping out the old edge connector with a new one to insure that it was making good contact with the board. More >
Dig Dug Troubles Continue
Dec 5th
Yesterday, I received a Dig Dug board in the mail. The board was supposed to be tested and working. I fixed the burnt resistor on the A/R II board and plugged the new board into the cabinet. The good news…nothing smoked. The bad news…poor Dig Dug still doesn’t work. Instead, I’m greeted by a 3 looping screens of corrupt graphics, in either test mode or game mode:
It appears to be some type of power issue causing the game to go into an infinite reset cycle. I’ve ordered a repair kit for the A/R II board which consists of new capacitors and a few new resistors. I’ve also ordered a new edge connector to ensure I’m getting good contact to the board. Any other thoughts or ideas on the problem would be appreciated. The parts will probably arrive on Monday, so I guess I’m tearing out carpet this weekend.
Dig Dug Is Dead
Dec 3rd
Unfortunately, one of the problems with owning classic arcade games is the fact that they will eventually quit working and need repair. Such is the case with poor Dig Dug. For the last few weeks, the game has been playing fine and then suddenly going to a scrambled screen of graphics. It became progressively worse and finally was just the scrambled screen when powered on. Needless to say, I wasn’t able to get any pictures of the scrambled screen. More >
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